Strategic Thinking and Theoretical
Practice of Marine Environmental
Protection in a New Era
Daoming Guan
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Central Committee has been
attaching great importance to the building of ecological civilization with unprecedented theoretical vigor and promotion efforts as well as in-depth reform. China is
a large country bordering the ocean that has a significant strategic role in ensuring
national security, promoting economic and social development, building an ecological civilization, and advancing cultural prosperity. Enhancing marine habitat protection is an important part of building an ecological civilization and building China as
a maritime power, and it is also of great significance to creating a beautiful China.
Moreover, marine ecological and environmental issues have formed a bottleneck
and shortcomings that delay the economic and social development of China’s coastal
areas. To atone for the above shortcomings and solve the marine environmental problems that the people are deeply concerned about, we should follow General Secretary
Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and important expositions on building
China as a maritime power as a guide, respecting, conforming to and preserving the
ocean to protect and improve the marine ecological environment—a responsibility
which we should take to enhance China to a maritime power and build a beautiful
China, and which is also related to the welfare and future of the people.
1 History of China’s Marine Environmental Protection
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “The global economic development has
shown an obvious trajectory from the inland to the ocean, and then from the ocean
to the world in terms of a country’s path towards prosperity.” The rapid development
of China’s coastal areas has been a process of continuous development towards the
sea. Given the increasingly important role the ocean plays in spurring the national
D. Guan (B)
National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_70
707
Practice of Marine Environmental
Protection in a New Era
Daoming Guan
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Central Committee has been
attaching great importance to the building of ecological civilization with unprecedented theoretical vigor and promotion efforts as well as in-depth reform. China is
a large country bordering the ocean that has a significant strategic role in ensuring
national security, promoting economic and social development, building an ecological civilization, and advancing cultural prosperity. Enhancing marine habitat protection is an important part of building an ecological civilization and building China as
a maritime power, and it is also of great significance to creating a beautiful China.
Moreover, marine ecological and environmental issues have formed a bottleneck
and shortcomings that delay the economic and social development of China’s coastal
areas. To atone for the above shortcomings and solve the marine environmental problems that the people are deeply concerned about, we should follow General Secretary
Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and important expositions on building
China as a maritime power as a guide, respecting, conforming to and preserving the
ocean to protect and improve the marine ecological environment—a responsibility
which we should take to enhance China to a maritime power and build a beautiful
China, and which is also related to the welfare and future of the people.
1 History of China’s Marine Environmental Protection
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “The global economic development has
shown an obvious trajectory from the inland to the ocean, and then from the ocean
to the world in terms of a country’s path towards prosperity.” The rapid development
of China’s coastal areas has been a process of continuous development towards the
sea. Given the increasingly important role the ocean plays in spurring the national
D. Guan (B)
National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_70
707